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US: The Guesthouse Hotel in Chicago and a conversion of the Reynolds Building in Winston-Salem are both set to feature apartments.
The Guesthouse Hotel, opening this summer, will feature a “home-like experience,” and claims to be the first luxury boutique hotel on Chicago’s Northside that allows guests to “live like a local” within a home-like setting.
The former 10-unit boutique hotel will expand into a 25-unit property with the construction of a new building next door to the existing hotel at 4866 North Clark St.
It will feature one- and two-bedroom suites, a spacious lobby with a reception area and retail space, club room, library, and exercise room.
Co-owner Dave Krug said: “We want to create a different experience for travellers coming to Chicago – one that focuses on local neighbourhood culture, offers comfort and independence, like that of your own home, and provides luxury accommodations at an affordable cost. Our vision is to create a perfect hotel option for small groups or families where they have all of the home amenities in a popular Chicago neighbourhood.”
“Our guests have the opportunity to live like a local and take advantage of our proximity to Wrigley Field and downtown Chicago, wonderful restaurants, and shopping in the surrounding Andersonville, Uptown, and Lincoln Square neighbourhoods,” said co-owner Simona Krug.
In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a boutique hotel and apartments are planned for the iconic Reynolds Building, the structure which served as the model for the Empire State Building in New York City.
A partnership between Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group LLC of San Francisco and PMC Property Group of Philadelphia intends to purchase the 314,000-square-foot Reynolds Building and convert it into a boutique hotel and apartments.
The Reynolds Building would be the first North Carolina property for San Francisco-based Kimpton.
Both projects are further evidence of the increasing convergence between the boutique hotel andserviced apartment/extended stay markets. Last month we reported on Oddfellows, a boutique hotel in the UK which is launching serviced apartments.
theguesthousehotel.com
www.kimpton.com
